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Trans/Form/Ação, 2023 Neste quarto fascículo regular de 2018 da revista Trans/Form/Ação, contamos com dez contribuições inéditas focadas nos pensamentos moderno e contemporâneo, na lógica e na filosofia da ciência.
Andrey Ivanov
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Epistemic injustice and the “Nature of Science”
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 901-941, April 2025.Abstract Scientists and science educators have argued that learners (students, preservice teachers, and inservice teachers) should understand knowledge construction in science, in addition to figuring out disciplinary core ideas. Given this goal, some science education scholars created a construct called the “Nature of Science” (NOS), which aims to ...
David Stroupe +2 more
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Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 35-51, January 2025.Abstract Some philosophical pluralists argue that a top‐down and a bottom‐up approach serve as equally justified methods for engaging in ontological inquiry. In the top‐down approach, we start with an analysis of theory and extrapolate from there to the world.
Ragnar van der Merwe
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Milking a spherical cow: Toy models in neuroscience
European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 60, Issue 10, Page 6359-6374, November 2024.Highly idealised models have long played a role in physics, valued not for their empirical accuracy but for their ability to clarify conceptual puzzles, foster tool development, and suggest new directions. We argue that the theoretical development of neuroscience could likewise benefit from such a strategy. After briefly reviewing the use of toy models
Randall D. Beer +2 more
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Science-based Metaphysics: On Some Recent Anti-metaphysical Claims
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2015 This paper focuses on the debate concerning whether and, if at all, in what way metaphysics should be accepted alongside science. It examines some recent objections levelled, among others, by Bas Van Fraassen against metaphysics as an intelligible and ...
Matteo Morganti
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Indifference, Indeterminacy, and the Uncertainty Argument for Saving Identified Lives
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 480-497, July 2024.ABSTRACT In some cases where we are faced with a decision of whether to prioritize identified lives over statistical lives, we have no basis for assigning specific probabilities to possible outcomes. Is there any reason to prioritize either statistical or identified lives in such cases?
Eric Gilbertson
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Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 301-315, July 2024.Abstract Naturalism, construed as the idea that philosophy should be continuous with science, is a highly influential view. Its consequences for epistemology, however, are rather odd. Many believe that naturalized epistemology allows eschewing traditional skeptical challenges.
Marc Jiménez‐Rolland
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The psychopathology of metaphysics: Depersonalization and the problem of reality
Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 3-30, January 2024.Abstract According to a common philosophical intuition, the deep nature of things is hidden from us, and the world as we know it through perception and science is, just like a dream, shadows, or a computer simulation, somehow shallow and lacking in reality.
Alexandre Billon
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Astroparticle physics, a constructive empiricist account
Science & Philosophy, 2019 Astroparticle physics is an interdisciplinary field embracing astronomy, astrophysics and particle physics. In a recent paper on this topic (2012), Brigitte Falkenburg defended that only scientific realism can make sense of it and that realist beliefs ...
Alessio Gava
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Bas Van Fraassen y la Ley de Hardy-Weinberg: una discusión y desarrolo de su diagnóstico
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008 O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir e desenvolver o diagnóstico que efetua van Fraassen (1987, p. 110) da lei de Hardy-Weinberg, de acordo coo qual esta: 1) não pode ser considerada uma lei a ser utilizada como un axioma da teoria genética de ...
Pablo Lorenzano
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